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TIL that a skeleton from 7150 BC found in an English cave was a DNA match for a history teacher living nearby

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8K7Z TIL Dull, Boring and Bland. The community of Boring in Oregon is marketing itself as “The most exciting place to live”. It’s sister communities are the Scottish Dull and Australian Bland.
598D TIL During Bruce Lee’s second autopsy, his doctor tried to attribute his cause of death to Cannabis
9wQj6 TIL Reynolds Wrap was founded in 1919 to make foil wrappers for the new concept of packs of cigarettes (Camel, 1913) of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., who later expanded to include Winston, Salem, Newport, Pall Mall. The Founder of Reynolds Wrap was the nephew of R.J. Reynolds, Richard Reynolds.
DQ7aP TIL that "many large opossums (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers (Crotalinae) and regularly prey upon these snakes."
46pg TIL: In 2012 a crew of scientists on a ship discovered a rather large error in maps - an entire island marked on maps that did not exist.